Paying for Necessity

I'm not talking about food or water, but the news. I'm convinced that paying attention to and understanding the News/World is an absolute necessity today. I mean, unless you're living in the woods off the land. Which, frankly wouldn't be that bad of a life. You could grow a big giant beard, shoot stuff, fish and maybe even farm. No cell phones or facebook. Sounds awesome to me.

Anyways, it seems ol' Rupert Murdoch thinks that the current system of reporting the news online is "malfunctioning" which means he's not making enough money. He claims that customers would pay handsomely to access the Wall Street Journal online. Until someone hacks it. Or realizes that they can get any important news story that the Wall Street Journal would report on over at the Drudge Report or any number of free online news sites.

Murdoch says, "The current days of the Internet will soon be over." I think he's out of his fucking mind. There is no way in hell that people will pay for the news online. No chance. I mean, think about the other things people DON'T pay for online that are MUCH more important on a relative level to people: porn (there's so much free porn it's ridiculous), movies, music and books. All which are more important to people on a personal level than online news. Everyone gets free local channels providing that you have a TV, antennaes (pre digital conversion, which is basically free) and power. That's all you need to get the news...even if it's on a local level, there are still national news reports broadcast on local channels. There is NO WAY people will pay for their news online. Rupert Murdoch is a fucking asshole globalist bitch.

Paying for shit in general pisses me off, let alone digital material on the internet. Which is why I refuse to pay for anything online. I haven't bought a DVD in probably 5 years with a couple exceptions (like anniversary edition of Monster Squad, cause it's the shit) and I rarely buy CDs unless I have a good reason (recently bought the new Zao CD which was an 8000 limited run with a T-Shirt!!). Other than those rare occurrences, I refuse. Most of the new movies that come out are shit anyways. I saw the latest X-Men movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, before all of the special effects were added and it totally sucked. Not because of the special effects either. Things like that save me money. I also saw Return of the King before it came out in theaters. Amazing. And that got me to GO to see it in the theaters. It's a double edged sword. I know that at least one of my brothers doesn't agree with me and one does. The one who doesn't agree with me is wrong in disagreeing but he won't admit it even though he knows it. Regardless, long live the Bay!

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